Everyone loves a fantasy football mock draft, myself included. But if you want to make the most out of your mock drafts, don’t just fire them up and see where the wind takes you. The best way to use mock drafts is to test out different approaches. There’s no better way to evaluate a draft strategy than to do a fantasy football mock draft using your intended strategy to see how your team turns out. The strategy I will be testing out for this draft is streaming quarterbacks. I love the idea of a late-round quarterback build this year. After the big four dual-threat quarterbacks at the top, things get very flat at the position. There are still high upside options that go undrafted in normal-sized leagues, let alone last until the late rounds. Here are a few of our favorite fantasy football draft picks to target using this strategy.
- Fantasy Football Draft Kit
- 2025 Fantasy Football Expert Rankings
- Fantasy Football ADP
- Fantasy Football Trade Tools
Fantasy Football Draft Picks to Target
Tyler Allgeier (RB – ATL)
Normally, when I land a certain player in essentially every single mock draft, I take it as a sign that I should move them down my ranks. But I’m happy to end up with Tyler Allgeier just about every single time.
Allgeier doesn’t have standalone value while Bijan Robinson is healthy, but I shouldn’t need that on this team. Instead, I love that Allgeier is one of the best handcuff running backs in the league. He has starter-level talent and will have no competition if Robinson is sidelined.
Bhayshul Tuten (RB – JAX)
If we’re being honest, I probably would have chickened out and taken a quarterback (or two) at this turn if this were a real draft. But the whole point of this exercise is to try extreme strategies and see how they work out.
With that in mind, it’s time for another upside swing with Jacksonville’s rookie running back Bhayshul Tuten. Time and again, targeting players from ambiguous backfields has proven to be a profitable fantasy strategy, especially when those players are young and explosive. There are plenty of scenarios where Tuten remains buried behind Travis Etienne and/or Tank Bigsby, but there are also realistic scenarios where he is a league-winner.
Justin Fields (QB – NYJ)
Well, now I’m glad that I held my nerve and waited another round on quarterbacks. I wanted to land at least one of Fields or Brock Purdy. Purdy unfortunately went just one pick before this, but Fields was actually my preference between the two, so I am not going to complain.
At the end of the day, we know that rushing quarterbacks are a fantasy football cheat code. And we know that Fields is going to run. Even in his training wheels stint as the Steelers’ starter last season, he averaged a very solid 19.1 points per game. He is my absolute favorite target when waiting on quarterback this year.
Dak Prescott (QB – DAL)
With that said, Justin Fields does come with some risk. I was tempted to double down on high-risk, high-reward quarterbacks with Drake Maye, but I decided to instead do the sensible thing and select Dak Prescott to pair with Fields.
Prescott also has some sneaky upside himself. The last time Brian Schottenheimer was calling plays for the Cowboys, Prescott finished as the QB3 overall with 20+ points per game. As long as he can return to his pre-injury form, it’s not at all absurd to imagine him having another big season throwing the ball to CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.
DJ Giddens (RB – IND)
In a real draft, I probably would have taken Jacory Croskey-Merritt here. But the ADP I was drafting against probably hasn’t sufficiently accounted for the momentum Croskey-Merrit’s hype train has gained recently; I doubt he would be available here in a real draft.
Instead, I drafted DJ Giddens. At worst, Giddens is an explosive rookie with an inside track to being Jonathan Taylor‘s handcuff. At best, he could have fringe standalone Flex value in what should be a run-heavy offense.
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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter and Bluesky @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.
